Dr. Robert G. Fraser, Radiologist-in-Chief at the Royal Victoria Hospital and Chairman of Radiology at McGill during the 60's and 70's died last April in his home in Birmingham, Alabama.

Robert Gordon Fraser was born in Winnipeg in 1921. Undergraduate studies in Toronto were followed by an M.D. from the University of Manitoba in 1945. After a year of general practice in Ontario and a short period in the Royal Canadian Navy, he completed a year of Pathology at the Washington University School of Medicine in St-Louis and a Radiology residency at the Royal Victoria Hospital. He obtained his fellowship in medicine from the Royal College by examination and became certified by the American Board of Radiology and the Quebec College of Physicians. He then joined the Faculty of Radiology at McGill and rose to the rank of Professor in 1968 and Chairman of the Department in 1971, a position he held until 1976. Thereafter, he was appointed Professor of Radiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham achieving Emeritus status in 1988.